AP Accountant - Payment Center

LEGO Group was founded in 1932 and within its 85 year long history it has developed from a small Danish family business to the world-famous and successful company. Its motto is „Only the best is good enough“.
Nowadays, the offices, brand stores and manufacturing sites are placed in different places all over the world. To ensure the support with financial and personnel transactional processes globally, the three shared service centers were founded in 2016. One of them is placed in Kladno, the Czech Republic and currently employs around 150 employees. We are looking for suitable candidates for this team. See the position below.

AP Accountant - Payment Center

For our Business Service Operations (BSO) we are looking for a new colleague that will be a part of an Accounts Payable department focused on payments process. Are you service minded? Do you enjoy structured, systematic and liable work? Then this is the right position for you. Apply Now!

Payments, Bank administration

Delivering a high performance, customer and service-oriented culture where the outside-in approach is starting point for all processes

Monitor all manual payment requests from the organization and perform payments in several different online banking systems

Be the expert in running the daily operation of the global payment factory (In-House Bash) and securing payments are performed on time, and take care of returned/rejected payments as well as optimizing the process

Building and strengthening basic stakeholder relations across areas and geographies including collaboration and culture (incl. Business Controllers, Treasury, CRBC and Tax)

Monthly closing of Treasury system and In-House Bank accounts, as well as bank reconciliation

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This position supports The LEGO Group with consistent, high quality and customer-oriented execution of internal and external payments, bank administration and stakeholder management, and thereby enable the BSO to succeed in delivering great value to the LEGO organization. The Payment Center Accountant plays an important role in supporting the Payment Center team in the BSO. We support Treasury in verifying and settling derivatives and secure timely, accurate and reliable payment to counterparties and reconcile incoming Treasury payments. Playing a key role in optimizing the global payment process in collaboration with BPI and Treasury.

Analytical and collaborative with a sense of quality

3-5 years of demonstrated working experience from Finance function

Experience with payment processes/payment factory in a global company

English at advanced level

Personal drive and initiative, excellent collaboration skills and demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with assigned business areas or other key stakeholders.

Experience with global online banking systems and the complex world of global banking with different payment types and cut off times

University degree in Accounting, Finance or Controlling

Previous experience with SAP or other ERP system is an advantage

Bring it to life

Working in a smiling, fun and collaborative environment might be enough for someone. Enable the company in delivering joy to millions of children around the world, makes every day of my life a special day.